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...help and respect on their part. We could be excellent partners with the government. We’d like to help them. Together we could truly make a difference. THC: Do you have any particular idols, people you look up to, respect, and draw inspiration from? What about Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Iran? [Ebadi was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to ever win the Prize.]MM: I don’t know much about political issues in the wider world, but there are women in Pakistan’s history that...
...Shirin was involved in everything, but she always had time for fun,” Lewis said...
Family and friends gathered in Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtroom last night to commemorate Shirin Shakir, a second-year Harvard Law student who died in a white water rafting accident in Cusco, Peru over spring break...
...entrepreneur I nominate John Prendergast. He is a lucid and vocal "explainer" of what's happening in Darfur and what needs to be done. He has been working in Sudan for 20 years and has been instrumental in mobilizing Americans to get involved on a grass-roots level. Also Shirin Neshat, who is making some of the most riveting art about the Muslim world. It's majestic, timeless, frightening and even prophetic...
...Shirin Shakir, a second-year law student at Harvard Law School, died this weekend in a white water rafting accident in Cusco, Peru. Her death was reported by Law School Dean Elena Kagan in an e-mail sent to the school’s faculty and students yesterday morning. Over spring break, Shakir had taken a vacation to Peru with a group of law students from Harvard. “Most of her closest friends were with her on the trip,” Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove said. “Many are going straight from Peru...